I have been doing some experiments with slide shows. I made a show using Movie Maker 4and that was fine. I then discovered I could make a show using Power Point. With certain limitations of course. All on DVD.
Then I had a job to do coping a lot of family photographs and adding them to a video project being made in Premiere 6.5 which was produced on DVD..
Now it occurs to me that as I use Premiere quite a lot why should I not use this programme for future slide shows as it’s easy to add titles, voice-overs, music etc.
Would you slide show experts like to comment on this way of making a slide show for DVD and even advise on their favourite slide show creation programme.
I've now realised that I don't think I can make advanced chapter points etc. using premiere. Still your advice would be welcome.
Pete
Pete
Have made some great slideshows using ProShow GOLD. (You can get a fully working trial version from the net.)
I can certainly recommend ProShow Gold, the adjustable parameters are great.
Regards.
Peter
Thanks both,
Yes I had heard of this ProShow Gold programme and have seen a production made using it. I suppose I was looking NOT to spend more money again. However I have down loaded to trial version and can see that it is capable of doing lots and lots so, (as ever) I expect I will 'shell out the sheckles'.
The background to my sudden interest in slide shows might be of interest but I will alter names to protect the guilty . . . I went to a slide show presentation given by a major public body on a new project coming for the public. Instead of going to the main lecture hall we were shown into a side room where the only attempt to exclude the daylight was a loosly draped white sheet over the large window. Result - black out nil. No screen was present so the presentation was on the magnolia wall. Dismal.
Many tecnical slides were shown but the presenter had no pointer to draw our attention to important points of each picture. All the portrait format slides had the large white areas on the left/right of the picture so this glared brightly to the viewers. No close-ups of the important points of interest . . No captions where these would have been of help and interest. no The End slide so that we knew the show was over. I could go on and on and on with the list of dismal points on the presentation.
I spoke briefly to the lady presenter afterwards and she told me she had created the show in Power Point. I suppose I should appreciate that whilst she is very skilled in her chosen subject, the results of her efforts at a Power Point presentation. left a lot to be desired. I came home and at once created a show in Powerpoint (that I had nerer even used) and was very pleased with the results and it's an easy programme to use.
Psssssst. Actually I only went to the show to meet the lady presenter again. They do say that a lady will draw a man further than gunpowder will blow him! How right that is.
Pete
In 1988 I went to the Glasgow Garden Festival and there was a slide show in a large room beneath the roots of a tree. There was a bank of at least 20 slide projectors and I think 4 screens. The projectors were controlled by computer and the presentation was stunning, with moving images, seasons changing, overlaying etc. It must have been state of the art at the time, but I suppose now someone with a bit of talent could knock it up on powerpoint in a couple of hours.
Proshow looks impressive, another must have? :(
BobA
Oh the good old days of multi carousel based projections! You could do so much with an early computer based slide system - as you say now replaced by either powerpoint or a dvd of a videeo based display.
The noise of 100+ carousels all thundering through a change was fantastic.
Powerpoint is to presentation what DTP is to design. People with no talent throw every effect into a presentation rather than allowing a pro to do it.